…ld have been a statement of full disclosure about the relationship between CNN and the movie. CNN stage-managed the “interviews” that have served as the basis for most of the news coverage – and CNN’s coverage was more like advertising. From where I sit, it means that CNN’s financial interests have affected the coverage of Kevorkian and assisted suicide. And it will continue. Because in June, HBO will be airing a documentary on Kevorkian – also no…
…on Kevorkian. The second surprise is that when the article came out on the CNN website today, the views and concerns are fairly presented in the context of an article on the activities of the assisted suicide advocacy group “Compassion and Choices,” also known as “Conflation and Con Jobs.” That’s no reflection on Ms. Landau, whose work I am unfamiliar with. The negative expectations are based on overall patterns when dealing with media rather than…
…, https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/22/politics/protests-mitch-mcconnell-office-health-care-bill/index.html; “If You Celebrated the Health Care Vote Last Week, You Should Probably Thank a Disability Activist,” Elle, Aug. 1, 2017, https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/news/a47075/disability-activist-health-care/?src=social-email [ii] “Ethical Decision Making With End-of-Life Care: Palliative Sedation and Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Sustaining…
…pt physician assisted suicide. Why, disabled people ask, do we see so many news stories lately about the burdens we impose on our caregivers, and so few articles about the nation’s ability to provide the long-term care services people really need and want? If the values of liberty dictate that society legalize assisted suicide, then our opponents should be asking to legalize it for everyone who asks for it, not just the devalued old, ill and disab…
…ing disabled does not mean death is better than life: Oppose aid-in-dying (USA Today, 01/28/22) Melvyn R. Tanzman and Lisa Tarricone: Aid in Dying Act offers too few protections for the disabled (Albany Times Union, 01/12/22) (text for non-subscribers) Lisa Blumberg: California Senate Bill 380 – A Deadly Bait and Switch on Assisted Suicide (Inside Sources, 09/13/21) Joan Cavanagh: Progressives offer another point of view on medical assisted suicid…
